Former Policeman Goes On Probation In Bethlehem Case

A former Bethlehem patrolman was placed in Northampton County's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program yesterday on charges of making false reports and tampering with official documents.

Richard Michlovsky, 41, whose latest address in county court records is listed as a post office box in Bethlehem, was placed on six months of unsupervised probation and ordered to pay $250 for program costs. Court records show he paid the entire $250 before appearing before Judge Richard D. Grifo.

He was charged by county detective Dante Montoro with making false reports, unsworn falsification, obstructing the administration of law and tampering with public records as a result of an incident March 20, 1985.

In that incident, an 18-year-old Bethlehem Township woman who had argued with her foster father went to township police headquarters and asked for transportation to Turning Point, a women's shelter in Allentown. Township police transported her to the boundary line between the township and city, where Michlovsky picked her up. He was to transport her to the boundary line between Bethlehem and Allentown, where Allentown police were to pick her up and complete her trip to the shelter.

According to the young woman, Michlovsky told her during the trip that she was 18 and didn't have to go to Turning Point if she didn't want to, and then offered to let her stay at his home if she chose.

At the meeting place with Allentown police, Michlovsky told an Allentown officer that the woman had changed her mind and no longer wanted to go to Turning Point. He also told the officer that he would handle the paperwork.

However, on the official report he turned in on March 21, he said he had turned the young woman over to Allentown police.

Michlovsky, who was charged April 26, was suspended from the police force on April 10. He submitted his resignation on Sept. 12.

Bethlehem city solicitor Joseph Leeson and Police Commissioner Joseph Moyer attended the proceedings. Leeson indicated the city administration and council were not opposed to Michlovsky's placement in the ARD program.

- Also admitted to the ARD program were Jose Javier Ortiz, 19, of 1221 Marvine St., Bethlehem, and Jose Sergio Alvarez, 19, of 816 E. 5th St., Bethlehem, who were charged by Palmer Township police with stealing a $120 10- speed bike on Aug. 6. They were each placed on three months' probation and ordered to pay $250 in program costs.

- Rita I. McLaughlin, 29, of 659 N. Main St., Bangor, was placed on one year of supervised probation and ordered to pay $350 in costs for possession of the drug Tuinal on June 3. McLaughlin, who is pregnant, told Grifo she is enrolled in a drug program.

- Barry Warren Hocking, 20, of 309 N. Robinson Ave., Pen Argyl, was placed on six months' supervised probation and ordered to pay $350 in costs for a charge of recklessly endangering another person. Police charged that Hocking abandoned a naked and intoxicated 16-year-old girl on a slate pile in Wind Gap on May 12. Hocking was also ordered to pay $40 restitution to his victim and to stay away from her in the future.

- Todd Richard DeWalt, 19, of 400 Bridle Path Road, Bethlehem, was placed on six months' supervised probation and ordered to pay $350 for carrying a spring-loaded stiletto knife and for possession of marijuana on Jan. 31, 1985, in Bethlehem. He was also ordered to comply with any recommendations from a drug and alcohol evaluation.

- Duane Itterly, 34, of 111 E. 3rd St., Wind Gap, was placed on one year of supervised probation and $350 in costs and ordered to comply with mental health recommendations. Police said that on May 11, he used a steel pipe to break all the windows of a car parked in the 500 block of Pen Argyl Street in Wind Gap, then broke a window of the house.

- David Vash, 20, of 612 Atlantic St., Bethlehem, drew six months' probation and $250 in costs for corrupting the morals of a minor, plus a total of $50 in fines for charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespass and $30 in costs for those charges.

Vash was also ordered to pay $151.43 in restitution to the owner of a car damaged on the Lehigh University campus during the April 12 incident.

- Darlene Carnes, 26, of 424 Pawnee St., Bethlehem, was placed on two years' supervised probation and ordered to pay $350 in program costs and $2,869 in restitution to the state Department of Public Welfare. She was accused of accepting $2,139 in cash assistance and $730 in food stamps for which she was not eligible because she was working.

- Michael J. Arcury, 22, of 949 Blair St., Easton, was placed on six months' probation and ordered to pay $250 costs for his arrest on a charge of possession of a small amount of marijuana on July 5 on Centre Square in Easton.

Martin was charged on Aug. 31 in the unit block of S. 4th Street. Keastead was charged Aug. 25 at Bank and Ferry streets.

- Alfred Henry, 76, of 550 Main St., Slatington, was placed on three months' probation and ordered to pay $250 in program costs for harassment by communication. He made eight telephone calls to a Walnutport home between May 30 and July 18.